Tilda Swinton takes swipe at women who wear too much make-up – after playing glamorous blonde in latest film

00:01, 21 Jul 2015

ByScotland Now

THE Oscar winner stars as brash magazine editor Dianna in Trainwreck but insisted she hated her stunning look.

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Tilda Swinton in her new film, Trainwreck

TILDA SWINTON has taken a swipe at women who wear too much make-up – after playing a glamorous blonde in her latest film.

The Scots Oscar winner stars as brash magazine editor Dianna in Trainwreck but insisted she hated her stunning look.

Mother-of-two Tilda, 54, said: “It’s fun to dress as someone different and this woman looks, frankly, like a lot of women I pass on the street every day – the women who go for that particular tandoori tan and the eye make-up and hair.

"But for me, that look is pretty extreme.

“I’m delighted to say that I’m unrecognisable.

“I don’t know whether one would really want to be recognisable in this role.

“The truth is there are a lot of women walking around rocking Dianna’s look and I suppose you maybe didn’t ever expect to see me in it.”

Tilda’s sleek look in the film is in stark contrast to her screen outing as grotesque politician Minister Mason in last year’s dark thriller Snowpiercer.

And she said that buck-toothed, bespectacled look was just as alien to her as Dianna’s.

She added: “I’m just dressing up and playing and that is a large part of the reason I’m interested in acting.

“It’s just as much a burlesque as playing the character I played in Snowpiercer. Both are deep disguises, which is such fun."